Two teams with opposite starts this season will meet Sunday night at 8:20 pm Eastern Time. The still undefeated Indianapolis Colts (4-0) will visit the Tennessee Titans, who have yet to know what victory tastes like in this 2009 season. Will the support and the energy of their fans give the Titans their first win? Or will the Colts continue beating opponents week after week? NBC will have the answer… and all the action.
Last week, Indianapolis extended their regular season winning streak to 13 by defeating the Seatle Seahawks (1-3) by scoring twice the points that they received: 34-17. Colts’s receiver D. Clark got 8 passes for a total of 80 yards, the most for his team but not for the whole game (Seahawks’ T. Houshmandzadeh had 103 yards in the same number of passes).
Most of the Colts’ success should go to their quarterback Peyton Manning. What can be better for a guy that already owns three MPV awards and a Super Bowl Ring? Well, many consider that this possibly is his most impressive start in 12 NFL seasons. Last week, Manning set a franchise record by topping 300 yards in four consecutive games for the first time (he was 31-41, 353 yards against the Seahawks). Also, both his touchdown passes came with their respective award.
The first one, a 5-yard pass to Reggie Wayne, made him the only quarterback, along Dan Marino, to throw 55 touchdown passes to two different receivers. The second one, a 21-yarder to Austin Collie, tied Manning with Fran Tarketon in the third place on NFL’s career list.
On the opposite side, the Tennessee Titans continued their winless season by losing 37-17 to the Jacksonville Jaguars last week. They already have as many losses as it had all of last season, and are facing quite a turnaround for a team that started 10-0 in 2008 and had home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs. Titans’ QB Collins was 29-48 in the game (284 yards, 1 TD) and was outplayed by Jags’ QB, D. Garrard, who was 27-37 in the game for 323 yards and 3 touchdowns.
Seeing how things are shaping up for both teams, it seems that both franchises record will stay intact: after Sunday night, the Colts will still be unfamiliar to a defeat, and the Titans will be trying to remember what is was to win a game. With Indianapolis’ great performance (mostly based on Manning breaking records week after game), this contest will be decided by far more than the point spread (-3.5) is giving right now. Easy win for the Colts.
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